Croquet

A game played with a sort of bandy stick. The crook was
superseded by a kind of mallet. Du Cange gives “Croque, croquebois,
croquet, bâton armé d'un croc, ou qui est recourbé” (vol. vii. p.
115). The art of the game is to strike your balls through very small
hoops arranged in a given order.